Matthew Thorburn is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently the chapbook A Green River in Spring(Autumn House, 2015), winner of the Coal Hill Review chapbook competition, and This Time Tomorrow(Waywiser Press, 2013), a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. His previous collections include Every Possible Blue(CW Books, 2012), Subject to Change(New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2004), winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize, and an earlier chapbook, the long poem Disappears in the Rain (Parlor City Press, 2009).

Current projects include a book-length poem, The Trees The Way The Light, as well as a new collection, Never Going Back Again. He is also writing a collaborative poem with Amanda Deutch that will be produced as a letterpress broadside by the Center for Book Arts as part of its 40th anniversary festivities. His interviews with writers, first published as the What Are You Reading?series, now appear on the Ploughshares blog as a monthly feature.

A Note on the Photography: The banner photos featured on this site were taken in China, Iceland and Japan, where the poems of This Time Tomorrow are set. Author photo by L. Koo.